Antonio J. Morales, The Transmission of the Pyramid Texts of Nut: Analysis of their Distribution and Role in the Old and Middle Kingdoms. Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur Beihefte 19. Hamburg, Helmut Buske, 2017. xxv + 263. ISBN 978–3–87548–819–7. € 148

Abstract

This monograph by Prof. Morales represents an important contribution to our knowledge of how ancient Egyptians edited and published mortuary texts. Emanating from chapter four in his doctoral thesis (The Transmission of the Pyramid Texts into the Middle Kingdom: Philological Aspects of a Continuous Tradition in Egyptian Mortuary Literature, Pennsylvania University, 2012), the work under review discusses the transmission of those text units that make of the goddess Nut a central theme from the end of the Old Kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom, as well as their meaning and role within the mortuary beliefs in ancient Egypt...